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a. [ OE. impacient, F. impatient, fr. L. impatiens; pref. im- not + patiens patient. See Patient. ] 1. Not patient; not bearing with composure; intolerant; uneasy; fretful; restless, because of pain, delay, or opposition; eager for change, or for something expected; hasty; passionate; -- often followed by at, for, of, and under. [ 1913 Webster ]

A violent, sudden, and impatient necessity. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fame, impatient of extremes, decays
Not more by envy than excess of praise. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dryden was poor and impatient of poverty. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not to be borne; unendurable. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience; as, impatient speeches or replies. Shak.

Syn. -- Restless; uneasy; changeable; hot; eager; fretful; intolerant; passionate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is impatient. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an impatient manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A patient who receives lodging and food, as well as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary; -- distinguished from outpatient. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Omni- + patient. ] Capable of enduring all things. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A medical patient who receives treatment at a hospital, especially in an emergency room, but is not admitted to stay overnight. Distinguished from inpatient, who is assigned to a room to reside there while being treated. [ PJC ]

a. Patient to excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient. [ 1913 Webster ]

Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that it often involves the agent and the patient. Gov. of Tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

In patient, a patient who receives lodging and food, as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary. --
Out patient, one who receives advice and medicine, or treatment, from an infirmary. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To compose, to calm. [ Obs. ] “Patient yourself, madam.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F., fr. L. patiens, -entis, p. pr. of pati to suffer. Cf. Pathos, Passion. ] 1. Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear. [ 1913 Webster ]

Patient of severest toil and hardship. Bp. Fell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Undergoing pains, trials, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whatever I have done is due to patient thought. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not patient to expect the turns of fate. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Forbearing; long-suffering. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be patient toward all men. 1 Thess. v. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a patient manner. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]